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Abstract

The household or family is a place for children to maximize their growth and development and fulfill
their nutrition, to create high-quality human resources and to drive the country’s economic growth for the
future. This study aims to examine factors of household socioeconomic characteristics, dietary diversity, and
the environment and their effects on the nutritional status of children under five in Indonesia. This study uses
cross-sectional design and uses secondary data from Indonesia Family Live Survey (IFLS) wave 5 (IFLS5). IFLS
is a longitudinal survey of a random sample of 83% of the population in Indonesia in 1993. The sample in this
study was children aged 0-60 months (toddlers), totaling 4,670 children under five. The research method is to
use a multinomial logistic regression model. The results showed that the nutritional status of children under five
years old was affected by family income, mother’s education, the gender of children under five, residential areas,
access to drinking water and good sanitation. The conclusion is that the mother’s education has a significant
influence on the three nutritional status of children under five, namely wasted, severely wasted, and overweight.

Pages

367-375

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©2020Fitria Nur Rahmawati, Tri Mulyaningsih, Akhmad Daerobi

DOI

10.30597/mkmi.v15i4.7929

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